新GRE閱讀長難句實例分析1
Yet Waizer’s argument,however deficient,does point to one of the most serious weak- nesses of capitalism-namely,that it brings to predominant positions in a society people who,no matter how legitimately they have earned their material rewards,often lack those other qualities that evoke affection or admiration.
然則,沃爾澤的論點,無論它不充分到何種地步,確實揭示了資本主義體制中最嚴重的一個弱點,即它將某一類人置于社會中的顯赫地位置,這類人無論以怎樣合法的方式獲得了其物質(zhì)報償,卻常常缺乏其它那些能喚起他人受戴和欽佩的品質(zhì)。
難句類型:復雜修飾、插入語、倒裝
新GRE閱讀長難句實例分析2
It was possible to demonstrate by other methods refined structural differences among neuron types ; however , proof was lacking that the quality of the impulse or its condition was influenced by these differences , which seemed instead to influence the developmental patterning of the neural circuits .
有可能通過其他方法來證明神經(jīng)元種類間的細微的結(jié)構(gòu)差異;可是,這樣的證據(jù)是缺乏的,即神經(jīng)沖動的性質(zhì)或者狀態(tài)是受這些差異所影響的,而這些差異看起來卻能影響神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡的發(fā)育模式。
難句類型:復雜修飾、倒裝
新GRE閱讀長難句實例分析3
Such variations in size, shape,chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold,and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience.
難句類型:復雜修飾
譯文:類似于這些已經(jīng)被在神經(jīng)細胞中證明的在大小、形狀、化學過程、產(chǎn)生的速度、興奮閾值及其類似的方面上所發(fā)生變化,當他們被用來與大腦的體驗以可能的方式聯(lián)系起來的時候,他們在重要性上仍然是微不足道的。
解釋:即使是初練難免的人其實也很熟悉such thing as something這樣的語言方式,可是當中間的小東西thing居然變成了一個長達十二個單詞的大東西的時候,實在令人搞不清后面的as及其后的something 到底為哪方神圣。再加上以such as 為中心的長主語距離系動詞remain太遠,更增加了本句的難度。請讀者反復閱讀,直到讀出這樣的感覺:順序閱讀原文時,原文似乎就是幾大塊,就好像是such things as a remain negligible in a certain sense.